Tag: National Assessment of Educational Progress

Dip in Test Scores Correlates with Enactment of Common Core

Jordyn Pair

Fourth and eighth grade students in the U.S. again showed no to little improvement in their average reading and mathematics scores, according to a report released this week, a decrease that correlates with the enactment of the Common Core.

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How Colleges Are Ripping Off a Generation of Ill-Prepared Students

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Siena College

by Walter E. Williams   Earlier this month, the 2017 National Assessment of Educational Progress, aka the nation’s “report card,” was released. It’s not a pretty story. Only 37 percent of 12th-graders tested proficient or better in reading, and only 25 percent did so in math. Among black students, only…

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